The kings in attendance could also see through the Alchemist King’s intentions. This was a customary method that the Supplemental Dao Alliance used to suppress supplemental kings outside of its purview.

The alliance was no benevolent faction of kindness—it’d built a monopoly and forbade any treasures over king level to circulate within the realm. When ordinary kings wished to obtain a king level treasure or pill, they had to pay at least ten thousand or a hundred thousand times the cost.

When Mangcang Mountain crafted Oddmoon, it’d exhausted almost all of the three kings’ personal wealth and they didn’t dare use it in the open. They could only surreptitiously send it to a lower realm for use in their plan...